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Every day there were some of these frogs in our swimming pool. Ideas about the species? Thanks in advance.http://observado.org/waarneming/view/56000437 Kikker onbekend - Anura indet. gezien op 2011-07-21 Spain - AndaluciaFoto's:

Ik zou graag willen weten of ik deze salamander in Zwitserland inderdaad juist gedetermineerd heb.EN: I would like to know if I identified this salamander correctly. Found in grass at 1900 m ASL. Thanks!

Hi Henk, you're identification is correct -> non-aquatic phase of Ichthyosaura alpestris (male) because of orange throat and spinestripe. The Salamandra atra is totally black with exception of 1 ssp which has yellow dots on it's back.

Hi Henk, you're identification is correct -> non-aquatic phase of Ichthyosaura alpestris (male) because of orange throat and spinestripe. The Salamandra atra is totally black with exception of 1 ssp which has yellow dots on it's back.

Because of that spinestripe it looks to me to be a frog I found a lot on the Peninsular of Malaysia and Thailand around human settlements on the countryside (even near the beach between the bungalows of Railay Beach near Krabi): (a young) Asian Grass Frogg (Fejervarya limnocharis. Synonym: Rana limnocharis, Gravenhorst, 1829 ). I never saw it arround Mount Kinabalu but according to the rangemap of the IUCN it occurs in the north of Borneo too: http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/58275/0 Check this page too. Did you see it inside the park or in secondary/agricultural vegetation? (because it only occurs in disturbed habitats). I can't find it in the Observado Database, maybe you've got a scoop!

He's not in the Observado-data-base yet -> maybe you're the first (scoop = primeur). But I'm not sure because of the location where you found him (according to the discription he's only to be found in disturbed habitats...). I think you should ask help from herpeto-admin Bobby Bok: http://www.herpet.mysites.nl/

@ Falco:The frog seems to be a Limnonectes species (maybe kuhlii). The problem with these species is that they seem to belong to a complex in which there could be more species identified in the near future. All my books(Inger) of that area are useless because in the past decade or so there have been many new discoveries. Greetings,Micha

@ Falco:The frog seems to be a Limnonectes species (maybe kuhlii). The problem with these species is that they seem to belong to a complex in which there could be more species identified in the near future. All my books(Inger) of that area are useless because in the past decade or so there have been many new discoveries. Greetings,Micha

Limnonectes Kuhlii could be because of the habitatdiscription and the rangemap but he does not have that typical bright spinal stripe. Maybe a new or unkown specie of Limnonectes?

What about this one? It's got that bright spinal stripe (but occurs in tropical lowland and Park Kinabalu is Cloudforest). At what altitude did you find it Ies?(maybe you can contact Alexander Haas, he seems to be up to date about the Bornean Herpetefauna, at the bottom right: http://frogsofborneo.org/Imagestext/imagestext.html ).